Champion jockey Ruby Walsh has had a massive 38 winners at Cheltenham but he has broken countless bones to achieve his stunning success.

The 34-year-old has revealed the litany of injuries he has suffered through the years in an interview with the Paddy Power blog ahead of the huge racing festival.

Ruby revealed: "I’ve had a few concussions, but when and where I can’t remember.

"Once in Kilbeggan I broke eight teeth and cracked my jaw. You can still see the lump. I was spitting out teeth for about two days."

Concussion suffered at Galway in 2012 (Photo: Paddy Power)

But none of these injuries have stopped Ruby getting back in the saddle to bring home gold for Chelteham punters.

And the Kildare racing legend admitted he can't bear to watch soccer anymore due to the footballers' antics saying: “I don’t like people who feign injury.

" I can’t watch football because there is no point. They’re not playing football. They are acting and they are bad actors at that.”

Ruby who has rode a staggering 2,000 horses to victory unveiled his injuries in series of shocking pictures for Paddy Power.

It includes a broken ankle at the Killarney races in 2009.

He said: "I fell off a horse called Imperial Hills at Killarney and had to spend six weeks on the sidelines.

"This wasn’t a major injury and I walked out of the racecourse, but I used a crutch to convince myself it was fine.

" It is only when you cool down and you see the swelling that you realise something is wrong."

Ruby's ankle suffered another excruciating break in Galway in 2012.

He revealed: "This injury didn’t hurt at all because I was knocked out unconscious!

" When I woke up in hospital they were x-raying it, so it wasn’t too bad. Luckily didn’t feel that one."

Breaking his left hip at the Listowel races in 2003 was a much more painful experience.

Broken left hip injury from Listowel Races 2003 (Photo: Paddy Power)

Ruby admitted: "The horse hit the fence hard and I was down at his tail, hanging on and hanging on.

"When I did fall, I landed square on the road-crossing, right on the ball of my hip. Luckily it only broke 75 per cent of the way through.

"If it had broken completely it would have required a pin and a plate, but because it was only three-quarters of the way across there was something holding it together so it closed itself.

"That 25 per cent was very significant. It was the only thing between having to have an operation and not having an operation."

One of the jockey's worst injuries occurred in Cheltenham in 2008 when he ruptured his spleen.

He said: "A horse beside me fell and kicked me with his hind-legs as he rotated.

" I was in that much pain I genuinely thought about pulling up, but I went on to win. Then I fell in a Novice Chase at Listowel in September, and the horse landed on my back tearing the back pad off me. It was incredibly sore that night as well.

"I eventually burst it at Cheltenham and when they took it out there were multiple scars in it. "Now I can only take an eighth of the antibiotics a normal person can take because the spleen cleanses the blood."

He later suffered a right leg spiral break in Down Royal in 2010.

The legend explained: "This was a very severe break, far worse than when I broke the same leg a decade earlier.

" In a sense I was lucky with the treatment because I was in Northern Ireland and they put a frame on it.

" It is like having four wheels on a bike around your leg with the spokes going through the bone. "This takes off the pressure and straightens up the leg. I have no metal or screws anywhere but I had the spokes in during this operation.

" The spiral fracture went from my knee down to my ankle and took four months to heal."

The brave jockey suffered another horrendous injury at Aintree in 2010 when endured a broken humerus.

Broken left humerus Aintree 2010 (Photo: Paddy Power)

He said: "I broke this in three places after falling off Celestial Halo in the Betfair Hurdle.

" It took from February right through until August to heal because you need a blood supply running through the bones.

" That meant the top break and the bottom break had to heal before any blood got to the middle break. The humerus is the second largest bone in your body, and mine was wrecked so that was a very severe injury.

" Even when the doctor took the cast off and I was in a brace, the surgeon told me the most I could lift was the equivalent of a pint."

But Ruby says the worst ever injury he suffered was a dislocated right hip in Listowel back in 2001.

He said: "In regards to physical pain this is the worst injury I have ever had. Your leg sits in your hip socket so to get it out through that socket is extremely painful.

" I had a general anaesthetic to simply just pop it back in. Two hours later it was all over, but in those two hours I was sorer than I have ever been."